About This Quiz

Did you ace the SATs without even studying? Have you given up watching "Jeopardy!" because the questions are too easy? Do your friends fight over who gets you on your team at trivia night? If so, you might have the knowledge and recall necessary to score high on this super tough trivia quiz.

In every group of friends, there's a fact collector ... someone who has a thirst for information and the astounding ability to store these facts until they're needed -- recalling them instantly when the occasion calls for it.

Sure, anyone can be an expert on a single subject. You likely know someone who knows everything about sports and can spout of stats about any player in any major league. Others may excel at something like math or science, multiplying three-digit numbers in their head, or reading scientific journals for fun.

But if you want to ace this quiz, you need more than expertise in a single subject; it takes a broad knowledge of things like history, science, geography, pop culture and some of the most famous and iconic figures of the past and present.

Are you confident you've got what it takes? Put on your thinking cap and take our quiz to find out!

John Adams served as the vice president under Washington from 1789 to 1797. He then went on to serve two terms as president. Thomas Jefferson was Adams' VP, and later went on to become the Commander in Chief himself.

The third season finale of "Dallas" ended with J.R. being shot by a mysterious perpetrator. Viewers spent months waiting to find out who pulled the trigger. It was revealed in the season four premiere -- the most-watched TV show in history to that date -- that it was Kristin whodunit.

Though it probably dates back father than the work of Pythagoras, the Pythagorean Theorem forms the basis for modern geometry. It states that the hypotenuse squared of any right triangle is equal to the sum of the other two sides squared.

Often called the Great American Novel, Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" tells the story of a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby who can afford to buy anything he wants -- except for the love of Daisy. The story is a caution on living in excess, and a commentary to the culture of the Roaring Twenties.

Lucille Ball may have had top billing on '50s classic "I Love Lucy," but the show wouldn't have been the same without her neighbor and best friend Ethel Mertz. Vivian Vance played Ethel, who often found herself in hot water thanks to Lucy's harebrained schemes.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin get a lot of credit for being the first men to walk on the moon, but they didn't pull off that 1969 moon landing alone. Another astronaut, Michael Collins, was also part of that Apollo 11 mission.

You'll probably have to dig deep in your memory for this one, but many elementary school kids memorize the order of the planets like this -- My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos, or Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune -- with Neptune being the farthest from the sun.

Coffee? Chocolate? Cheese? Being able to translate from ounces to pounds is helpful not only when shopping for food favs, but also for tracking calories and preparing recipes. No matter which units you're dealing with, as long as you remember that a pound is equal to 16 ounces, you'll be good to go.

In the '90s, a student putting together a science fair project came up with the idea to warn people about dihydrogen monoxide. This compound of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom got people riled up -- and continues to do so in online memes -- but it's really something safe and familiar -- water.

At 4,365 miles long, the Amazon River in South America is the longest river in the world. It's followed by the Nile in Africa at 4,258. The mighty Mississippi in the U.S. doesn't even crack the top 3, at 3,902 miles.

Emily Bronte completed just one book in her short life. The Gothic classic "Wuthering Heights," released in 1847, tells the story of the tortured Heathcliff and his love Catherine as they lived on the English moors.

World War II saw the debut of horrific nuclear bombs, which the U.S. dropped on cities in Japan. The first of these was carried to Hiroshima in 1945 by pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets, aboard his plane the Enola Gay.

The biggest animal on the planet is the blue whale. It can be as long as 105 feet and weigh 200 tons. Just the tongue on this creature weighs about as much as an elephant, while its heart weighs as much as a car.

A century ago, a simple infection could kill you because doctors had no effective way to treat it. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the power of penicillin, earning him the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Green Bay not only won the first Super Bowl in 1967 by defeating the Chiefs -- they also won the second the next year by beating the Oakland Raiders. Their streak ended the next year when the Jets played their way to victory against the Colts.

Cumulus clouds are large and bumpy. They are the most common cloud type for producing heavy precip. Cirrus clouds tends to produce little rain or snow, while stratus clouds sit lower to the earth and can produce some drizzle or light snow.

While Australia is larger than Greenland, it's typically defined as a continent, making Greenland the world's largest island. It's followed by New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar and Canada's Baffin Island.

He may have had a hit song called "Like a Rolling Stone," but Dylan was never part of The Rolling Stones. In the '10s, the band's touring members include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts.

Easter Island serves as a source of fascination for people around the world thanks for giant stone figures called Moai. There are more than 880 Moai on the island. They were built by the Rapa Nui between 1250 and 1500 -- and surprisingly, are more than just giant heads. Buried beneath the soil, the Moai actually have bodies.